User:Mariner

I am a historian of the Church and Byzantium more generally. Currently I am completing my dissertation, "Lay Piety in Byzantium, c. 600-730" in the Department of History at Princeton University. My daily bread, however, is earned from the University of Basel in Switzerland, where I am on a 2-year contract as a research fellow in the Theology faculty.

I don't have much time these days to write articles, but I sometimes edit existing ones, mostly small things like fixing typos or references. This usually occurs when I am procrastinating from my work and wander onto Wikipedia or Orthodox Wiki, emerging hours later dazed and confused and wondering where I am.